Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than that, " my father said. "He was beautiful.

Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning.

I'm full of admiration for the Queen. She's done a fantastic job. She has had an awful lot of blocks along the road and has overcome them all. I'm anything but an antimonarchist.

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

I try to break a sweat every day. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's the goal.